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I found a really cool little Buddhist temple on the way to Huay To Waterfall in Krabi.
You can park your motorbike on the left side in the stone gravel parking lot under the small Bodhi tree. The bodhi tree is supposedly what Buddha sat under when he became enlightened. Most Buddhist temples have a couple of them around for obvious reasons ;). You can feel free to explore the whole area. Though I am always very quiet and try to appear inconsequential when I do so. I've only had one experience when someone was angry I was walking around the temple grounds and it was a lady across the street from an old temple in the countryside of Sisaket (Isaan region). I don't know what she was all worked up about, but maybe there was some special thing going on at the temple and nobody was supposed to be on the grounds. Not sure, but she was pretty furious and speaking Isaan or Khmer dialect that I couldn't follow at all!! Anyway, nobody will yell at you at this temple, I've even lifted up logs, garbage cans, building materials and everything else looking for snakes and nobody has said anything but kind words to me. Recently, about 4 days ago I stopped at sunset. I walked around looking for snakes for 40 minutes then some monks asked me if I wanted to see the cave. I thought I already had, but I said, sure... all in Thai of course because they don't speak English.
I took some photos and then we came out and kept going around the mountain. He took me the WHOLE way around the mountain and told me about his plans to build a road the whole way around the mountain so more people can come and see it. He planted mango trees all over where the road will be and it should be a nice shady place for a walk someday when it's all finished. All the clearing of trees is finished. We walked around to more buildings on the opposite side of the wat that we started at and we must have passed 5 good caves that are begging to be explored. I didn't have a flashlight, and I was kind of following him out of courtesy since he was excited to show me the whole place. At the end of it he pointed up on the limestone hill and said that a Swedish man built the meditation platform up there on the hill. I had seen it before and it's quite dramatic. It is above the tree top level and a great place for meditation - though the mosquitoes still get up that high. There is a citronella candle and if you go to meditate you should wear lotion too I think. There is a very cool stream running through the wat (left side of photo above) and the wat borders a coconut palm tree plantation. It's just a really cool setting and something fun to do in Krabi if you like to explore temples and caves.
Another really nice temple is Wat Tum Sua in
Krabi town. Information about Wat Tum Sua > More photos of Wat Tham Suea, Krabi >
Even more Wat
Tum Sua photos of the back grounds Here is another section of our site where we have photos and
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Wat Thum Sua Videos From Krabi Town - can see Buddha/Chedi at Wat Tum Sua, Video 1 Inside the Caves at Wat Tum Sua Video 2 - In the foothills section. Ground level of Wat Tum Sua, Video 3 Big cave where a monk shut the lights out on us, Video 4 - foothills. 1000 year old tree, Video 5 - foothills.
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[Wat Thum Sua (Tum Sua) Location] Traveling up the main road away from Krabi Town and the pier you'll come to a red light. Make a right. You'll see the mountain top Buddha and Chedi on your left. Go approximately 3 km and make a left at the next stop light which has a small sign for Wat Tum Sua. They may spell it "Wat Tham Suea" or some other common variation. Go another 1.5 km and make a left at the sign. Stock up on cold water at the stores before you get in to the temple area or pay a little higher price inside the temple complex at the convenience store there. Bring a snack too since your round trip if you climb to the top might take 3 hours since you'll want to stay at the top for a while.
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I've stopped there a number of times to look for
snakes and to explore the temple grounds. Like Wat Tum Suea their
temple is built around some caves and there are many to go explore
if you have a flashlight - so bring one..jpg)
I followed the monk. He was about 55 years old. He
was very thin and he loved to walk apparently. He took me in to the
right side of the temple and past all the monk's quarters that are
built into the cave side... we walked back to some caves I hadn't
seen. We went inside and saw the diamond material in one of the
large brown stalactites that was pretty cool - and the reason for
the name of this cave "Diamond Rays Cave Temple".
